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There were three things Mary knew about love.
It was something you earned, not something freely given.
It was often louder for others than it ever was for her.
And it was completely unattainable for Mary Bennet.-
Modern AU where Mary is trying to get through University and Tom is yearning.Series
- Part 1 of feel like i’ve been hypnoticized
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23 Jul 2026
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How Soft Your Fields so Green by StrawberryWhorecake
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Jul 2026
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There was silence now, but it was different. There were no hushed whispers. No lingering footsteps or silent prayers. There was only the sound of her breathing as it bounced off the chapel walls.
The sisters were lucky that the river was in the valley and Godfrey saw the raiders coming— that they were able to run.
Mother Penelope, abbess of St. Cecily, was alone with her memories when they came.
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23 Jul 2026
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“What’s wrong?”
“Erm… well… fuck. Ok. Colin.” She clears her throat. “I’m so sorry, but this is a call of shame.”
“A what?”
“A call of shame. I might… I might have chlamydia.”
“Oh.” MY FUCKING GOD. He doesn’t say that part out loud but he thinks it very loudly. “Ok.” She’s going to be freaking out.
“No. No, not ok. Not ok at all. We fucked!”
“I remember.” It is absolutely top of the wank bank.
“And not like sensible adults.”
“I remember that too.” If felt fucking incredible.
“So you might have chlamydia.”
“I understand how STIs work, Pen.”
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29 Jun 2026
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feel your body closing, i can rip it open by applepuffsilver
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
11 Apr 2026
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"I want your help."
Her eyes meet his. They're too fucking blue, dark and deep and surrounded by long, pretty lashes.
"Help writing?" She imagines late nights standing behind him as he writes by the glow of his laptop, bending down so their cheeks hover with only warm inches of air between them. Letting her chin rest on his shoulder for a second, her nails tapping the screen. Feeling his breath hitch as she presses herself to him. She shifts in her seat and tries to pull herself together.
He shakes his head. "No. Help with the sex."
She laughs. It startles out of her in a bubble. "You want me to help you find someone to shag?" she asks incredulously, raking her fingers through her tangled curls (she was too hungover this morning to brush them properly).
But Colin doesn't laugh, and his eyes don't leave hers. "No. I want to shag you." He grimaces. "I've never said that word before."
Or Virgin Professor Bridgerton asks his colleague Penelope for some help...
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12 Apr 2026
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colin thinks he'd be able to enjoy just about anything sexually if it's with the right person; penelope disagrees. a game of chicken ensues.
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by the power of portia's old cosmo magazines and prolonged eye contact, colin finally makes his move.
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09 Apr 2026
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Penelope can't sleep. She needs her special pacifier.
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02 Apr 2026
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"We'll have to actually do some writing, then, if it's raining." She gives him a hesitant smile. "Isn't that why we came here?"
"Y-es," he says slowly, frowning. He had said that, hadn't he? A writer's retreat, he said in that dark, frozen garden, his mouth so close to hers that he could taste her next words, taste his own saliva on her lips. Just me and you. "But — but no. Not just that, Pen."
Her cheeks flood pink again (God, it's nice making her blush) and she turns her face towards the fire, her teeth buttoning her lower lip. "No," she says softly. "Not just that."
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After telling Penelope he loves her, Colin takes her to the family chateau in France for a week to work out what their relationship is going to be
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26 Feb 2026
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“Mr Bridgerton? Colin?”
He almost did not recognise her. She looked very different — pretty red curls bobbed fashionably; cheeks and lips stained with a little rouge; a day dress in a lovely mauve colour that made her eyes seem bluer, somehow — but it was her scent that threw him off. Now that he thought about it, he could not quite recall what Penelope Featherington actually smelled like (he had not seen her in years, after all). She was so often at Bridgerton House that all he could summon was the same lilac smell that his mother and his siblings bore, but of course there must be other notes he was forgetting.
Still, he was fairly certain she had never smelled like this: vetiver and geranium, sharp and green and floral.
Not a bad smell by any means — just not Penelope’s. Even though he could not recall her scent, he knew certainly this was not it. She must be wearing perfume. It befuddled him so much that he realised he had been staring at her silently for a lot longer than was polite, especially for an old family friend he had not seen in ages.
OR: in 1920s paris, perfumer colin meets an old friend
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04 Feb 2026
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"Now," the boy (Colin, Colin, Colin) says, as he eases himself to his feet languorously, so he looms and teeters upon the wall. Penelope's breath catches in her throat — she stares up at him in frozen terror as he reaches a long arm out to snatch the top of the cherry tree, his body bowing elegantly into the nothingness of open air. One wrong move and he will tumble, she is sure of it. "Penelope with the Greek name and lovely face and hair like fire," (Penelope wonders if she might die from blushing), "if I throw you down some of the sweetest cherries from the top of the tree," (he begins to pluck and twist the green stems, the branches shaking precariously), "the ones the sun has kissed to perfect ripeness, the kind of cherries you have never tasted before in your life," (he pops one in his mouth and gives the rest of his speech pouted around it), "even as the daughter of a duke who always tastes the very best of everything — well, do you think you might favour me with a smile?"
Oh, she thinks (for even at fourteen she is decisive; knows her mind well). I am in love.
On the day she finds out she is to be married, Penelope falls in love
Renaissance Era AU
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04 Feb 2026
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Penelope Featherington would do anything to protect Colin Bridgerton from a bad match—even to herself. When her mother schemes, she runs. When she runs, he follows. And when it’s all over, wedding bells ring. But that’s only half the story.
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25 Jan 2026
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fires that you started by writergirl8
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
24 Aug 2022
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Everything that Penelope owns fits into three wooden trunks. Even with all of the yellow and orange dresses she had left behind, it feels odd to think that the summation of her entire life was small enough to fit into three wooden trunks that have been dropped off in the dressing room at her new home.
She is supposed to exit this room and be someone’s wife, and all she can think is that she cannot breathe with all of her things living inside the trunks. And what kind of wife, anyway, spends her wedding night wondering if her maid had packed the one wooden doll with hair painted red, just like Penelope’s. A doll she has not thought of in years, and yet somehow, its absence presses against her chest until she knows that she will continue to ache until she finds it.
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- Part 9 of 30 Minute Fics
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20 Oct 2025
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a certain slant of light by abvj, lilacsandpoppys for RomancingTon
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Aug 2025
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Five times Colin and Penelope fall asleep together... platonically... as friends... because they are idiots.
And the one time... well, you know where this is going, dear reader.
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10 Oct 2025
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All That Mattered by justanothersong
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
15 Jul 2024
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“No, I’m sorry Pen, I’ve claimed you now and I’m keeping you,” Colin declared, finally stilling his wandering hands to give her a chance to catch her breath. “Best friends forever, we’ll get matching tattoos and one of those heart necklaces that breaks in half.”
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09 Oct 2025
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The Devil (Didn't Make Me Do It) by StrawberryWhorecake
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
11 Oct 2025
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Penelope has accidentally joined a cult.
A hapless, bumbling family cult that has her tied up as a “virgin” sacrifice to a demon.
Never mind that she’s neither a virgin nor remotely devout: they insist she’s the chosen one.
But the real surprise isn’t the ritual; it’s Colin, a shy, awkward demon who might be the least terrifying thing about this whole fiasco.
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07 Oct 2025
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Depravities of Colin Bridgerton by artofmatriarchy
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
28 Jul 2024
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Penelope is Colin’s best friend. He loves her a bit too much.
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04 Oct 2025
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How It Is, How It Was, How It Has To Be by headphonesbaby
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Nov 2025
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She never felt this confident in a service before and slowly, she began to forget about that food critic and their remarks about her (wonderful) risotto. She wiped her hands on her apron, smiling as she looked around the kitchen.
That was, until she heard two of the servers whispering harshly to one another, rapid and urgent.
“You tell her.”
“No, you should do it. She likes you better.”
Or Penelope is the head chef of one of London's hottest new restaurants, Whistledown and Colin, well, he's the guy that doesn't like her risotto.
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03 Oct 2025
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Penelope Featherington didn't need her soulmate to live a successful and fulfilling life. She had a popular podcast, two very excellent best friends and a work/life balance that most could only dream of.
She wasn't going to let the fact that her soulmate had rejected her stand in her way.
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21 Sep 2025
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Penelope has been on suppressants her entire life, keeping her omega at bay. Unfortunately, the medicine does little to stop her from falling heads over heels in love with her best friend's brother.
While she knows that Colin will never look at her that way, her traitorous little heart simply refuses to stop clinging onto the hope that one day, their friendship might turn into something more. And perhaps, her greatest desires are about to become true, after all, because when something goes wrong with her latest prescription, Penelope suddenly finds herself facing the handsome alpha staring at her with a hunger she had never seen on him before...
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07 Sep 2025
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You, Me, and the Bed by Elle018, ktbeets, murderbymushrooms, Stillpink
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
01 Apr 2024
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Three times Penelope and Colin shared a bed accidentally and one time they shared a bed on purpose.
(Forced Proximity AU + Polin Week 2024 = 💛)
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06 Sep 2025
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Mystery Work
Part of Ellie Clover
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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15 Aug 2025